Summer, 2018

The run closed December 30, 2018

Opened

April 23, 2018

Closed

December 30, 2018

Performances

289

Previews

Unknown

Theatre

Lunt-Fontanne Theatre

Of the 425 productions we hold that opened in the 2010s and carry a performance count, this is the 83rd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Who was in it15 named

Ken Robinson
Jared Zirilli
Angelica Beliard
Mackenzie Bell
Anissa Felix
Kendal Hartse
Wonu Ogunfowora
Rebecca Riker
Jessica Rush

6 of these 15 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 9 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name, so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.

Creative team

Director

Des McAnuff

Choreographer

Sergio Trujillo

A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.

Around this production

Summer: The Donna Summer Musical is a jukebox musical with book by Colman Domingo, Robert Cary, and Des McAnuff and music and lyrics Donna Summer, Giorgio Moroder, Pete Bellotte, Paul Jabara, and others, based on the life of Summer. The musical made its premiere at the La Jolla Playhouse in November 2017 and opened on Broadway in April 2018.

The musical W. C. opened on July 19, 1971, at the Colonie Coliseum Summer Theatre near Albany, New York. Broadway Bound A Guide To Shows That Died Aborning, p. 505

• “Summer” (lyric and music by Irwin Graham); “The Yogurt Sisters” (lyric by Dennis Fitzpatrick, music by Michael Grace); and “True” and “Paisan,” Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 361
• Take Me Along wasn’t the first musical adaptation of O’Neill’s comedy. MGM’s 1948 musical Summer Holiday was a problematic version of the story with lyrics by Ralph Blane, music by Harry Warren, and a cast that included Mickey Rooney (Richard), Gloria DeHaven (Muriel), and Walter Houston (Nat Miller). Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 828
• TENNESSEE WILLIAMS’ Summer and Smoke (10/10/48; 102 performances), which was not a success. One problem was that audiences had seen A Streetcar Named Desire the previous year and expected more of the same. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 386
• Behrman’s End of Summer (2/17/36; 153 performances), starring Ina Claire and Osgood Perkins, was also a success. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 548
• Williams’s next play, Summer and Smoke (10/6/48; 102 performances), was unsuccessful at the time, per- haps because it paled in comparison with Streetcar. The play opened at the Music Box THEaTER. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 580

Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.

What this page does not know

• No photograph of this staging.
• No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
• No recording is held for Summer at all.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.